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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>2020-05-07 21:20:00 +0200
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-05-25 15:44:00 +0200
commit142d06489fc7952976841ec888a655c3735e66fd (patch)
treec7fad3a18c93cbc0d5eb6a57e76d17b6ae61b494 /drivers/media
parentcd25993988491f97a42b3db490fdb2599c67edc8 (diff)
downloadlinux-142d06489fc7952976841ec888a655c3735e66fd.tar.bz2
media: s5k5baf: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues. This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/i2c/s5k5baf.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/s5k5baf.c b/drivers/media/i2c/s5k5baf.c
index cdfe008ba39f..42584a088273 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/s5k5baf.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/s5k5baf.c
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ struct s5k5baf_fw {
u16 id;
u16 offset;
} seq[0];
- u16 data[0];
+ u16 data[];
};
struct s5k5baf {